Unit 8: Motivation & Emotion
Zuckerman's SSS
Select A or B for each answer. Score your results to get a TOTAL score.
Report your subscores by giving yourself a point for each match within the subscore category you see below...
Boredom Susceptibility (#s 2,5,7,8,15,24,27,31,34,39)
Disinhibtion (#s 1,12,13,25,29,30,32,33,35,36)
Experience Seeking (#s 4,6,9,10,14,18,19,22,26,37)
Thrill & Adventure Seeking (#s 3,11,16,17,20,21,23,28,38,40)
On a separate piece of paper to turn in MONDAY 1/29, report your 4 subscores. Reflect on what your results might mean about your life and the decisions you make or have made thus far. Why do you think you got the results you did - do you "agree" with your subscores and what they proport to say about you? Do you have any concerns about your results? Why or why not. Do you think your results are more a result of your environment or your genetics, explain your thinking. How do you think this research relates to the Yerkes-Dodson Law?
